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BUCKBOARD-WAGON.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 294,891, dated March 11, 1884,.

Application filed September 8, 1883.

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM Locxwoon, of Madrid, in the county of St. Lawrence and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Buckboard-XVagon, of which the following is afull, clear, and exact description.

The object of my invention is to provide a simple arrangement of the springs and springbraces for the buekboard which will be durable and inexpensive and give to the wagon all the easy-riding qualities of more expensive vehicles, while retaining all the lightness and ease of draft of the common buekboard.

The invention consists of the detailed construction and combination of parts, essentially as hereinafter fully described and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is anunderside' view of the improved buckboard-wagon, partly broken away and with the wheels removed. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the buekboard of Fig.1. Fig.

3 is a like view to Fig. 1, but showing a modified arrangement of the springs connecting the hind axle to the buekboard; and Fig. t is a 1011- gitudinal sectional elevation on the line av m, Fig. 3.

The arrangement of the buekboard with the forwardsprings and front axle being the same in the construction shown in Figs. 1 and 2 as that shown in Figs. 3 and 4, the same description will apply to either, as follows:

a represents the buekboard, which may be made of any approved material and be of any desired size, and may or may not be fitted with a dash-board and one or more seats, as variously arranged in vehicles of this class.

I) is a cross-bar, to which the three flat steel forward springs are connected by suitable bolts and clips, ed, as shown. These forward springs range fore and aft edgewise about in line with buekboard a, the two outer springs, e, connecting the buekboard at or near the side edges directly with the bolster f by clips j", while the center spring, g, is bent downward beneath the front axle, h, with which and the bolster it connects bya bolt, 15, which forms the pivot or kingbolt, on which the forward run- 11in g-gear of the vehicle may swing in turning.

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Referring now to Figs. 1 and 2, j represents the rear crossbar, fixed to the buekboard a. k is a center spring connected by suitable bolts and clips, 0 (Z, with the bar j and hind axle, Z. This spring k ranges in lineedgewise with the board a, as do the three forward springs, e c y. The-outer rear springs, m, are fixed suitably to. bar j, and are set aslant or obliquely edgewise to the buckboard a, and connect by clips with the hind axle near to the shoulders of the wheel-hubs, so that while the elasticity of the springs m and spring 7- is available for easy up and down movement or spring of thebuckboard a, the oblique springs an act as braces to prevent any side sway or swing of the buekboard.

The arrangement of hind springs in Figs. 3 and 4 differs from that in Figs. 1 and 2 last abovedescribed only in that two fore and aft central springs, 0, connect the barj near each edge of the buekboard with the hind axle, Z, instead of the single central spring, 7;, and a spring bar or rod, 9, connects the buekboard a at each side with the hind axle, Z, instead of the flat platesprings m the vertical spring, the sidebra-cing actions being substantially the same in either case.-

Any or all of the fiat or plate springs used may consist of but a single plate, or be built up of two or more leaves, to give the desired degree of elasticity, and easily carry. the predetermined maximum load; and the springs may have any vertical curve to suit the de sired height of the buekboard.

I am aware that it is not new to employ as a spring two bars so constructed as to converge at their middle portions, and to diverge at both ends, said convergent portions being con= nected to the buekboard, and the divergent portions or ends connected to the front bol ster and back axle and in another instance to mount the body on a front and a nearframelike spring intermediately, and at their inner ends connected to the body, while at the outer ends one is connected to the head-block of the front axle, and the other to the rear axle.

Having thus described my invention, 1 claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent I11 a buekboard-wagon, the combination,

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with the buekboard a and the front bolster,

f, and axle h and the hind axle, Z, of the cross pieces bj, secured to the backboard a short bars or braces, m m, secured to the cross-piece distance inwardly from its ends, the central j and hind axle, l, as shown and described, 10 Springs, g k, one secured to the under side of and for the purpose set forth.

the front axle h and the cross-piece b and the v other to the sanie side of the hind axle, Z, and Loud the cross-piece j, the parallel side springs, c e, l \Vilnesses:

connected to the cross-pieces I), and above the 1 \V. H. Ens'rox,

front axle to the bolster f, and the rear oblique IR. LOVEGROYE. 

